You normally access a shortcut's properties through the right-click menu, but when you're dealing with a Windows 7 pinned taskbar button, that's just going to pull up the excellent Jump List feature. So how do you customize the shortcut?

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Over at Windows expert Paul Thurrott's web site, he points out that you can easily access the shortcut properties for a pinned shortcut by first right-clicking on the taskbar button, and then right-clicking on the name of the application in the Jump List, which will let you easily access the properties dialog. This is especially helpful for custom shortcuts like pinned Google Chrome Application windows, which are difficult to access otherwise, but it should work for any pinned shortcut.

It's a very simple tip, but useful if you wanted to customize a shortcut to add extra command-line parameters, start maximized, set the compatibility mode, or even set it to run as administrator by default.